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January 2004

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First of all - A Happy and Prosperous New Year to You All!

This middleaged lady was thought to have a leftsided ulcerative colitis for about 10 years. The disease had been silent but a few months before this colonoscopy she suffered from a quite severe flareup, subsequently cured by a few weeks of peroral corticosteroids. This is the endoscopic finding in her transverse colon. What is this finding?

Answer

    Inflammatory polyposis ("pseudopolyposis") after a fulminant ulcerative colitis

Correct answers and comments were emailed by

    Lorna Kirkham , Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
    ARBER F. VELIU, Prishtina,, KOSOVO
    Salvatore Della Ducata, Gallipoli, Italy
    LUISGUILLERMOGUERRERO, BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
    Klaudia Niepsuj, Bytom, Poland
    Hurler, Ulrike,Heidenheim, Germany
    Yaþar Nazlýgül, Ankara, TÜRKÝYE
    Hiam Mustafa E. Mohammed, Omdurman, Sudan
    Dr.Virendra Parikh, Fort Wayne, INDANA, USA
    ALTIN CEKODHIMA, TIRANA, ALBANIA
    Umberto Bigazzi, Citta' di Castello, Italy
    HAISSAM NOURALLAH, KUWAIT
    Peggy Watt, Iron Mountain, USA
    Saleem Qader, Lund, Sweden
    Murat Toruner, Rochester, USA/MN
    Petr Vožeh, Prag, Èeská republika
    Paraboli Silva, ML, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo-BRAZIL
    Donna Rayner RN, Boise, Idaho, USA
    Klaudia Jadwiga Niepsuj, Bytom, Poland
    Sheikh Anwar Abdullah, KL, Malaysia
    Tohtori Toivonen, Rauma, Finland
    bhagwan thakur, Mumbai, India
    VALLADARES GUILLERMO, LIMA, PERU
    Ilker Abci, Alanya, Turkey
    Tomas Anderson, Varberg, Sweden

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